>All,
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>I have a Pentium 200MHz with 64Megs RAM and a 2 Gig HD (150 MG free) on a Novell 4.X network. Before opening VFP I have 70% of my system resources. After opening VFP, opening the Class Browser and opening a class, I have 30-35% of my resources.
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>Is this about what everyone else is experiencing? If I open my e-mail system or much else, I get system lockup or other undesirable side effects.
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>BTW I have VFP 6.0SP3.
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VFP will grab all the memory it can for buffering data unless you use SYS(3050) to limit it's appetite. You can set the maximum amount of memory for VFP to use for buffering for both foreground and background tasks.

With only 150MB of free disk space, I'd seriously consider putting a cap on the swap file size to prevent the swap file from eating all your free disk space if you're running Win9x. If the same disk is being used by the operating system for both temp files and the swap file, you may well be getting hosed here by running out of unused disk space.

In addition, what exact resource is the issue here? There are four memory heaps carried over from the Win16 environment that have size limits of 64KB each, regardless of how much physical and virtual memory is available; the most frequent cause of problems I've seen has been the GDI heap, used for video and printer workspace - the number of installed fonts, screen resolution, color depth and number of icons/active windows all take a bite, and running out of GDI is often reported as either a GPF/memory access error, or an out of memory error.